©Courtesy of Pathe Almost 150 years before Andy Dufresne tunneled his way to freedom in Stephen King’s The Shawshank Redemption, Edmond Dantes scratched through the wall of his dungeon cell. For Dantes, it was more of a detour than a getaway. Yet, that gave him more time—years in fact—to contemplate his ultimate goal: stone-cold…
©Courtesy of Amazon The business of cuteness sure can get ugly. Just ask the secret children of Japanese idol Ai Hoshino—make that the late Japanese idol. She was murdered by a psycho-stalker calling himself a “fan.” Despite their deceptively young ages, her son Aquamarine (Aqua) and daughter Ruby were already no strangers to tragedy. Somehow,…
©Courtesy of Warner Brothers Even in Middle Earth, 183 years represents a long time for mere mortals. However, it is a manageable span for a powerful wizard. That is how a critical character from the original Lord of the Rings trilogy (and his immediately recognizable voice) could re-appear, but only for a brief cameo, in…
©Courtesy of Crunchyroll Video games are a brutal meritocracy. Your stats and levels are a direct result of your past play. The only way to raise them is by upping your game. However, Sung Jinwoo exists in a video game-inspired world, where the “player-characters” are blessed or cursed with very different starting endowments. Sung was…
©Courtesy of Netflix Mary, Queen of Scots was six days old when she ascended to the throne. It did not work out very well, especially for her. In contrast, Ellian, the Princess of the Kingdom of Lumbria turns a relatively mature fifteen, right as the film opens. However, she is not yet emotionally prepared to…
©Courtesy of Janus Films For some, it will be hard to ignore the Biblical implications of this new animated tale. After all, it follows a rag-tag group of animals, who survive a sudden apocalyptic flood aboard a floating sanctuary. Yet, other viewers will see it as a cautionary environmentally-themed beast fable, somewhat in the tradition…
©Courtesy of GKIDS By feline standards, Anzu is unusually lively. This might sound ironic, since he is a “ghost cat.” However, in this context, instead of denoting an undead state, his “ghostliness” means the thirty-seven-year-old will probably continue to live forever in his current roly-poly state of arrested emotional maturity. However, a pre-teen girl stands…
©Courtesy of Kadokawa Imagine a figure like Skeletor from Masters of the Universe, except he is a good guy. Perhaps “good guy” is too strong a term, but we can at least say he is complicated. Now imagine you are that character. This is the position Satoru Suzuki found himself in. He was the last…
@Courtesy of GFM Animation How can a little girl not love dogs? Even in Ireland, Mary O’Hara must surely have grown up with Snoopy and Clifford. Nonetheless, she inherited a fear of canines [perhaps unfairly] from her grandmother, Emer, along with her love of “cookery.” Both those inheritances skipped her mother Scarlett, who took on…
© Arenamedia As last words go, “the potatoes” are not as romantic as “rosebud.” Yet, for Grace Prudence Pudel, her elderly friend’s dying breath is just as cryptic and even more frustrating. Life threw a lot on Pudel’s shoulders, but crazy old “Pinky” might just have some parting wisdom to help her carry on in Adam…
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